A breakout book from Stephen Marche, The Hunger of the Wolf is a novel about the way we live now: a
sweeping, genre-busting tale of money, morality, and the American Dream—and the
men and monsters who profit in its pursuit—set in New York, London, and the
Canadian wilderness.

Hunters found his body
naked in the snow. So begins this astonishing new work of literary fiction.
The body in the snow is that of Ben Wylie, the heir to America’s
second-wealthiest business dynasty, and it is found in a remote patch of
northern Canada. Far away, in post-crash New York, Jamie Cabot, the son of the
Wylie family’s housekeepers, must figure out how and why Ben died. He knows the
answer lies in the tortured history of the Wylie family who, over three
generations, built up their massive holdings into several billion dollars’ worth
of real estate, oil, and information systems, despite a terrible family secret
they must keep from the world. The threads of the Wylie men’s destinies, both
financial and supernatural, lead twistingly but inevitably to the naked body in
the snow and a final, chilling revelation.

The Hunger of the Wolf
is a novel about what it means to be a man in the world of money. It is a story
of fathers and sons, about secrets that are kept within families, and about the
cost of the tension between the public face and the private soul. Spanning from
the mills of Depression-era Pittsburgh to the swinging London of the 1960s,
from desolate Alberta to the factories of present-day China, it is a bold and
breathtakingly ambitious work of fiction that uses the story of a single family
to capture the way we live now.

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Quotes & Awards

“I read this book in basically a single sitting yesterday
and have thought of little else since. It’s the kind of novel that makes me
want to turn the last page and immediately turn it over and start reading it
again. The Hunger of the Wolf is a
modern masterpiece: The Great Gatsby
for the new gilded age.”

James Frey, New York Times bestselling author

“A dazzling virtuoso piece. Marche turns the making of a
family’s fortune into a fascinating, bloody fairy tale.”

Emma Donoghue, New York Times bestselling author of Room

“Marche has created a stunning, evocative, and impressionistic account of the ascent of wealth in the twentieth century…The Hunger of the Wolf could be Marche’s breakthrough novel.”

Booklist (starred review)

“The nature of family bonds and wealth are at the heart of this spellbinding tale from Marche…Despite the novel’s
account of their dramatic accumulation of a peerless fortune, the Wylies
remain mysterious—not only to Jamie and to the public but also to one
another. No word is out of place in this taut multigenerational tale,
which takes some enjoyable supernatural turns—readers will be just as
driven as Jamie to discover the mystery at the heart of the Wylie’s
legacy.”

Publishers Weekly

“Author of the popular Esquire column ‘A Thousand Words about Our Culture,’ as well as much praised, edgy works like Shining at the Bottom of the Sea, Marche returns with a new book that’s au courant, blessed with a touch of the thriller, and billed as his breakout.”

Library Journal

“Marche scrutinizes the rapaciousness of contemporary media
moguls by cleverly reimagining them as actual wolves…An entertaining, curious journey into the beating black
hearts that occupy the penthouse suites and those who aspire to join them.”

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About the Author

Stephen
Marche is a novelist and culture writer. For several years
he has written a monthly column for Esquire
magazine, “A Thousand Words about Our Culture,” as well as regular features and
opinion pieces for the Atlantic, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New
Republic, and elsewhere. His books include the novels Raymond and Hannah and Shining
at the Bottom of the Sea, as well as the nonfiction work How Shakespeare Changed Everything. He
lives in Toronto with his family.

About the Narrator

Paul Michael Garcia,an AudioFile Earphones Award winner and former company member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, received his classical training in theater from Southern Oregon University, where he worked as an actor, director, and designer.

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